Why Michael Metzler had his run-in with the Pyromaniacs

Michael Metzler recently got the same treatment from the TeamPyro blog that I've received in the past. Let me explain for Michael just what is at play...

Michael, whether he knows it or not, is awakened to spiritual warfare with the establishment church. Though Michael, unlike me, would protest and say he is a church goer and all that, which I think he has stated he is, he has still seen the devil in the establishment church (in his case, the cult leader in Moscow, Idaho), and rather than succumb to it and play along, as the vast majority within the domain of the establishment church does, he confronted it and left its domain.

So now as he saunters over to the TeamPyro blog, the members of that blog, all Village of Morality, establishment church denizens to the extreme, can literally feel him as he approaches.

Michael is still somewhat innocent regarding his new status. He thinks there should be no particular conflict or friction between him and other Christians who seem to be OK men and women. Yet -- there it is. Because the establishment church protects itself, in all its various parts. You confront one of its leaders, and you have confronted all its leaders. And Michael really only has to say 'hi.' That's all it takes. Because he is the enemy no matter what he says, and his very presence there is a threat and an assault.

Notice that there is nothing leaders of establishment Christianity can do that is out-of-bounds? The biggest of the churches within the establishment church has an entire class of clerics who prey upon and molest children, and...ultimately it's just fine with the members of the church. Basically, ultimately, it's always OK with them. The same in the protestant establishment church. The pastor in question is even tainted to a degree with a child molestation scandal within his church. It's 'ok' not only with his church members, but it's just sort of 'ok' with establishment church types like the owner of the TeamPyro blog and his main contributors. No big. And, don't come over here saying anything about a church leader! You will be forthwith banned. Which Michael was.

In the establishment church it is all about the fear of man. The fear of man is stronger than the fear of God. The Bible tells you to fear God, and fear God only.

Once you've awakened and engaged in spiritual battle with leaders or other elements of the establishment church you are marked (once you've demonstrated you are more inclined to fear God than to fear man you are marked). Whether you know it or not, and whether you like it or not. I rather like it myself.

Note: when you get banned from such a blog or site as TeamPyro the accusation against you is always that you've used bad language or something similar. In my case, I confronted them on various doctrinal issues, and only when I found my posts deleted did I respond with the 'bad language.' So, then they dishonestly give the impression forever afterwards (usually when they are justifying the banning of some recent contributor) that you were banned for bad language. I.e. they goad you into responding like that when they simply, unannounced, delete something you've written. But it was the confrontation on the doctrinal issues that was the reason for the banning and deletions in the first place, not the subsequent 'bad language' that followed when one finds one's writing has been unceremoniously sent to the memory hole. (And yes I'm guilty of having a non-lukewarm, and salty tongue, especially when confronting these types...) But that is just par for the course behaviour of the Village of Morality (establishment Christianity).

Note: Establishment Christianity is not biblical. It is what John Bunyan termed the Village of Morality (and also Vanity Fair, perhaps an innocent-sounding name to our ears, but it is where Christian and Faithful were chained and Faithful was burned at the stake)... It is aberrant [deviating from the proper or expected course]. It is not the Way. Members of it despise Christians who are on the Way, and who confront the devil when they see the devil.

The antithesis of establishment Christianity is God's remnant. Always a blessed minority...marked by a high valuation for the Word of God and the recognition of the effectual work of the Word and the Spirit in regeneration, a valuation for the practical level of the faith, and an inclination to fear only God and not man.